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this is bbc world news american reporting from washington, i'm katty kay. -- kathy k. those who have survived have lost almost everything in the philippines. there is no food or water. the need for help is urgent. hungry and is very thirsty. >> if the world is out there, send help, because these people need it. >> and tension with tehran. it needs to give inspectors more access to its nuclear sites right after rejecting a deal with the west. welcome to our buglers --

viewers on public television and elsewhere around the globe. in the philippines, the scale of the devastation is phenomenal. the u.n. says 10,000 died, but warns the number will rise. filipino authorities stated worst damage is on to island provinces and a new storm is now brewing in the region. our first report is from shaun donovan, who spent the day with survivors in the airport. this report has distressing images. >> people here are grieving, homeless, and hungry. >> we are so very hungry and thirsty. if you have water or food, maybe you can give it to us. >> next to the runway, a makeshift hospital.

screaming]ing -- but some patients are being treated without anesthetics. this woman has just given birth, a baby girl. overturned.world and alongside her, another woman is also in labor. people waiting here are desperate to get out on any plane they can find. >> we can leave either tomorrow morning or today, or somewhere else, but he needs dialysis. he is in critical condition. if the world is out there, send help because these people need it. >> outside the city airport, hundreds have been waiting, desperate for any aid they can get. they need shelter, and in many cases they have been separated from their families, too. >> we need food.

i am still here. i am still alive. are busy and full as people search for their loved ones. this is the main street and the distraction is almost complete. barely a building standing and there is the stench of death in the air. we have seen scores of bodies just in the two kilometers from the airport. and just behind us are dozens of bodies bundled up in tarpaulin. the devastation is overwhelming. and so far, little sign that the government is managing to get toht out to the many in -- get any aid out to the many in need. people are doing what they can to help themselves. who have nothing are looking for anything they can find.

but unless more relief comes quickly, the little food there is will run out soon. >> from hospitals to shelters, nothing works. families have to bury their own dead in big mass graves. our correspondent has been hearing the stories from one street in the city and his report, two, and contains distressing images. >> the only way to get someone buried here now is to do it yourself. joseph and his friends have come to collect the body of his sister. for three days, they uncovered in the street. -- it lay uncovered in the street. now with a homemade coffin, they can cover the stench and carry on foot to the burial grounds.

>> in the street where joseph's sister lives, this man is trying to make a list of his neighbors who are dead. >> eight children, all children. >> it is still almost impossible to know how many have died in this devastation, this disaster. to give you an idea, we have been told that on this one street here, 18 people died, 18 in just this one stretch of road in one neighborhood. and many of the bodies are still lying around in the houses, or out in the baking sun, and they are starting to putrefied. next street over, mildred and her family survived by clinging to the roof of their house. but their biggest fear now is hunger. on the street, they are trying

to dry out their waterlogged rice. no one knows for sure if it is still edible. the cry is the same here, where is the government yet -- where is the government? where is to help get the >> many people have died. we need food, water. that is all we need. that is the most important, really. the dead bodies must be buried. >> down by the sea, they are digging the grave for the mother of these three young men. suddenly, one of her sons is .vercome by grief mother's body is stuck under a fallen coconut tree and they cannot get it out. i asked her husband how they are

managing. >> i could not sleep. she was a very good mother. the fuel very hopeless -- i feel very hopeless. everything is gone. >> a short distance away they dug a much bigger hole, a mass grave. the procession continues. we counted at least 30 bodies going in here. how many more in -- in formal graves like this are being dug along the coast? we don't know, but to be certain it is many. >> a heartbreaking scene from

the philippines. the country as it was stranger to this type of weather -- is no stranger to this type of weather. have been looking at why this storm has been so distractive. -- destructive. >> it takes a view from the air to see the distraction. first is wins and -- for roche's wind combined with water lays waste to communities. for many people, there was simply nowhere to hide. the survivors are now appealing for aid from the outside world. the typhoon had been forecast, but proved to be completely overwhelming. >> the thing that was really so dangerous was that it reached its intensity at the point that it made landfall. it might be one of the strongest typhoons to ever make landfall. disaster,rstand this

let's use our virtual reality studio to try to piece together how this catastrophic weather unfolded. have had more than 20 typhoons this year alone, but no -- none at the scale of this one. it began as a loose cluster of thunderclouds, nothing unusual. but they quickly merged together to form a single weather system rotating, pulling air up into its center. the storm stretched over 300 miles. it was a typhoon, and the heat rising from the water was adding to its strength. --- higher temperatures mean more energy. this means that the eye of the storm, the wind kept accelerating with intense low pressure that lifted the sea surface that created a storm sage -- a storm surge.

compare this town before the disaster and the same view just after it. almost every house has had its roof ripped off. year, a similar fate, the storm hit with it explosive force. >> the devastation is staggering. >> today, an official who is from here was that the u.n. and called for an end to global warming. >> we can fix this. we can stop the madness right now, right here. >> an emotional moment. but the fact is that no single weather event can be blamed on climate change. heat in are fueled by the ocean. the massive size of the phone was clearly visible buys -- from space. thatcientists are warning this kind of storm may become more likely. >> an extraordinary storm

formation. live to the philippines. -- seeing have senior the scenes of devastation. what are the people telling you they need now? >> the plea from the people here has been the same. we need help. we need food. we need shelter. they don't feel like they are getting any help yet. it is the beginning of day five since the disaster, and very little government assistance of any form is arriving here. and it is now tuesday morning here and it is pouring with rain. we have had torrential downpours overnight. people are either living in the open, or even if their houses have not been destroyed, 90% of the buildings here have lost their roofs. the rain is making an already bad situation even worse.

>> rupert, how bad are the communications where you are? how difficult doesn't make the relief effort? >> very, very difficult indeed. there is no electricity here. all of the power lines are down. many roads are blocked. many places are flooded. there are no telephones at all. there is no cell phone network. one of the things we have noticed over and over again out in the street are people coming up to us and saying, we need to contact our relatives, we need to tell them we are safe. people are walking huge distances to try to find their relatives to let each other know they have survived, or to tell each other that family members have been lost. people have been left to their own devices to deal with this

situation so far. there are planes coming in, but here in the city there is no real sense of a government presence or a really -- or an aid effort taking effect. the images are spookily reminiscent of what happened in japan. does it remind you of that situation that you saw in northern japan? >> it reminds me of japan. it reminds me very much of indonesia, the soon army that hit indonesia in sumatra in 2004. along the coast, the levels of destruction are very similar. that is because it was not just very powerful winds. there was a huge storm surge that came in to the coast and a swathe of land perhaps half a mile wide. it was completely devastated by the water.

it was the water that caused most of the damage and most of the deaths here. much for yourery reporting. still to come on tonight program, finding beauty in guantánamo bay. tonight, we introduce you to the workt who has -- whose cast the detention facility in a different light. how can you tell if someone is close to having a heart attack e scientists in the u.k. believe they have created an early warning system. it involves a scanning technique already widely used. experts say it would allow view the arteries and high resolution. it could make a massive difference for patients. atthis is a heart attack, if -- a fatty deposit has blocked

an artery, starving the heart of oxygen. they have -- scientists believe they have discovered a way of detecting this in advance. they have injected a radioactive tracer and then using a high- resolution strata -- scanner to light up this grid. in 40 people that have had the test, it detected the problem and 37 patients. it also said more is needed and it will be another 5-10 years before this approach is used routinely to identify patients at risk of a future heart attack. the scanner, it shows that it really does predict heart attack risks. then we can find these individuals at high risk and give them the treatment that's what hopefully prevent the heart attack. >> the british foundation that developed this technique said it could identify what it calls ticking time bomb patients.

>> the winter olympic torch came back to earth today after a week and on the international space station. the astronauts had a bit of a bumpy landing in posix down. k inc. has extended -- in azahkstan. today, iran struck a deal on its nuclear program, but far from the grand bargain many had hoped for. as we can, talks in geneva the tween world powers ended with no agreement. and courting to john kerry, and was the rainy and economic said what was on the -- according to secretary john kerry, it was the iranians that the could not accept what was on the table.

thank you for coming. what happened this weekend? thehen we last spoke i said devil would be in the details. well, the devil has come. the details, however, are manageable. they can be overcome. there are differences over heavy water plutonium. secretary kerry said he was not quite ready to sign his deal. what we are talking about is an interim deal, a six-month deal. it is where we get to the final status talks. it will be long and arduous and more of these setbacks as well. on a broader level, what we have to understand is how much progress has been made at least in terms of the optics. remember a few years ago, trying to get the secretary of state of the united states in the same room as the foreign minister of had to use diplomatic acrobatics. now they talk, but the devil will remain in the details. >> what is the risk that they

will come away this week in and say there has been a loss of faith for whatever reason, that they are angry it seems for john kerry -- it seems at john kerry. could this complicate or slow down the process? >> it certainly does complicate. but we have noticed an extraordinary political will in tehran to find a solution. their economy is losing about $3 billion to $5 billion a month in lost oil revenues. 40% and in -- 40% inflation and rising unemployment. he needs to deliver something. -- what if john kerry goes in and says, we will reduce sanctions if you give us some guarantee that you will not enrich uranium about 20%?

and then there are iranians -- the iranians say, how do we know congress is going to go along with this? >> that is probably what they will be asking. we have already seen elements of congress calling for new sanctions in the midst of these negotiations. in a strange way, washington has president obama in a tougher position than president rouhani. our allies are skeptical. >> and i spoke to someone on friday who said that if this eel goes through, it could increase the possibility of military action against iran because the really -- the israelis are so angry about this potential deal. >> if this were to have gone ahead, it would have been an interim deal. and it would still be six months. what you have done is give an opponent of a deal six months to throw arrows at this deal.

and we would be seeing arrows coming from tel aviv from -- from tel aviv, from the u.s. congress, and from other allies. >> thank you for coming. an afghan militant leader has been shot in the pakistani capital islamabad. he was one of the top members of the hot connie network, -- ha qani network. it was on a global list of terror networks with the taliban and al qaeda. if proposal angered demonstrators who had been campaigning against. [indiscernible] and the great -- the disgraced american cyclist lance armstrong

has announced that all this business has not been good for the sport. he has said he will testify with 100% transparency and honesty in the future. of scenichink landscapes, the south of france or napa valley come to mind. has capturedher the rugged beauty of guantánamo bay. current exhibit of his watercolors is on display in new york and recently, he talked about his work. >> the subject matter of the show, which ultimately is the prisoners, wound up being everything except the prisoners. many not really have expectations of guantanamo.

for some reason, it never occurred to me to go to guantánamo as an artist before it even though i had been to afghanistan and pakistan many times. focused on as i an artistic motif was the camp. wherewas the first prison they brought the prisoners when they first arrived. and if it -- and it was the , ore where the torture interrogation techniques, were done to the detainees. it is a strangely beautiful place. it is a series of deserted buildings surrounded by chain- link fence. it has been abandoned now by -- for decades, and nature has kind of taken it over. it is almost a strange nature preserve, but with these haunting places where you know terrible things happen.

one of the things that was about guantanamo is the censorship there, which they are very open about. sometimes it would be something we'd be nondescript, like a building sitting on a hillside. they would say, you can draw the landscape, but not that building. me, was artistic gold, which meant that i could do a fully fleshed out landscape, which i love to do, and leave it blank lace. there will be something so intrinsically absurd about that, and then also playing with , because the paper really makes the watercolor sings. my big disappointment in guantánamo was that i was not actually allowed to draw the detainees. i thought it had been arranged ahead of time, and the public affairs people thought so, too, but when i arrived at the prison where a large portion of the

detainees were being held, the head of the prison there looked at me in shock and said, you want to draw what? it turns out i drew everything except the detainees. one early morning i drew the .allway that was the closest i got to seeing the presence of the people. >> on his work at guantánamo bay. that brings today's broadcasting to a close. on can get all of the latest the philippines and other news as well on our 24-hour network. nook and also go to our website. -- and you can also go to our website. thank you so much for watching. >> funding of this presentation

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> wooduff: a city wiped out, untold numbers dead, survivors desperate for aid, but that aid's been slow to come. the scale of devastation in the typhoon-ravaged central philippines is only now becoming clearer. good evening i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. also ahead, iran agreed today on a u.n. road map that would allow for the inspection of key nuclear sites. but there is not yet a broader agreement on how to freeze iran's nuclear program. margaret warner reports. >> wooduff: and from san francisco this veterans day, the story of a college program-- one of only a handful nationwide-- helping soldiers overcome the scars of war. >> i don't care if you've got 1,300 vets like we do, or 30